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You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair–the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.— Stephen King, On Writing

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The urge to go outside comes suddenly–to be amongst the trees and smell the clear cool night air, to be away from the people and the heaviness–alone with the stars. It is past four in the morning and I am standing in the middle of four tall pecan trees. I stand looking up at the sky for long minutes. A …

The carpet he stood on donated from the left overs of a basement remodeling. The crib three years ago given and draped now with jeans and t-shirt. A light blue chipped paint rocking chair in another corner. Then there was the window — two opaque yellow rectangles bordered with white trim against the baby blue cinder block walls. The man …